GOG Offers DRM-Free Copies Of Your Retail S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Games

GOG is a really good store and site in general, recently they updated their refund policy to a 30 days period instead of the EU-mandated 14 days period – Worldwide. And now they are offering DRM-Free copies of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. If you own a Retail copy or a copy with a Gamespy key, you can hand it in to GOG, and receive a DRM-Free copy in return.

GOG’s DRM-free initiative.

Over at GOG.com there’s a news post that popped up earlier today, titled “Reclaim Your Games. DRM-FREE!”. If you have an old retail key or a key to the now defunct Gamespy service, then you can just head on over to GOG – enter in the serial-key, and voilà you now have a DRM-FREE copy of the game.

The DRM-free initiative.

We’ve always been on a mission to offer you games with no DRM protection whatsoever. Today, we want to start taking things a step further, help out people who bought a retail game with DRM, then ended up stuck with something rather unplayable. We can help you enjoy your favorites once again, and this time around, enjoy them DRM-free!

There are countless retail games out there that don’t work for various reasons: unsupported types of DRM, system incompatibilities, broken features. There’s too many too count. Starting today, owners of several retail titles originally sold with DRM can get a digital copy of their game completely free at GOG.com: with no DRM as always, compatible with modern operating systems, and with plenty of goodies to boot.
Reclaim these games, DRM-FREE:

GOG added that they plan to add more titles to the list in the future, but that it’s “a long and complicated process that involves negotiating with multiple parties and a scavenger hunt to retrieve forgotten key-databases”.

So if you have a Retail/Gamespy key for any of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, you can head on over here, and get a DRM-Free copy, and if you own Russian bought versions of the games listed in the second part of the list, you can get yourself DRM-Free copies of those as well. At the time of writing the ticker on the Reclaim site states the following : “So far 10538 games worth $170,035 were already reclaimed DRM-Free!“